{"id":1149,"date":"2009-06-12T10:14:22","date_gmt":"2009-06-12T14:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=1149"},"modified":"2009-06-12T10:49:02","modified_gmt":"2009-06-12T14:49:02","slug":"new-alzheimers-test-too-simplistic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2009\/06\/12\/new-alzheimers-test-too-simplistic\/","title":{"rendered":"New Alzheimer&#8217;s test too simplistic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"A British self-screening test\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/health\/8091224.stm\" target=\"_blank\">A British self-screening test <\/a>that claims to spot early dimentia more accurately is not specific at all to Alzheimer&#8217;s disease. <a title=\"Robert Stern\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alzresearch\/team\/faculty\/stern.html\" target=\"_blank\">Robert Stern<\/a>, Co-director of the <a title=\"Alzheimer's Disease Clinic and Disease Program\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alzresearch\/\" target=\"_blank\">Alzheimer&#8217;s Disease Clinic and Disease Program<\/a>, maintains the &#8220;Test Your Memory&#8221; does not include any real delayed recall tasks, cannot separate those with poor memories from Alzheimer&#8217;s patients, but is a good first step for getting further medical help.<\/p>\n<p>Contact Robert Stern, 617-638-5678, bobstern@bu.edu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A British self-screening test that claims to spot early dimentia more accurately is not specific at all to Alzheimer&#8217;s disease. Robert Stern, Co-director of the Alzheimer&#8217;s Disease Clinic and Disease Program, maintains the &#8220;Test Your Memory&#8221; does not include any real delayed recall tasks, cannot separate those with poor memories from Alzheimer&#8217;s patients, but is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":113,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[1049,1241],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/113"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1149"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1166,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149\/revisions\/1166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}